****PUN ALERT**** ===> Wicket Local Brookline

Monday

Jun 2, 2014 at 6:35 PMJun 2, 2014 at 8:22 PM

Anyone know what’s going on here?

If you’re like me, you like your athletic contests to take place over the course of five days and be conducted in bulky sweaters that show every last grass stain.* You’ll be happy to learn, therefore, that the Brookline Cricket Club exists — 102 members strong — and it is taking new players!

This is not to be confused with the Longwood Cricket Club, which is a fancy-pants grass court tennis club in Chestnut Hill that also offers its members swimming, dining and lounging on the deck sipping Glenmorangie and discussing Chinese labor strikes and their impact on large cap stocks. What Longwood Cricket Club does not offer its members, regrettably, is cricket.

You can find Brookline Cricket Club on Meetup. There isn’t much info available to non-members, but anyone who’s interested can become a member. There are matches coming up on June 8, 14 and 22, and they apparently play in Brookline, Boston or Cambridge. “All skills and levels welcome.” There are six reviews of the group, all of which may or may not have been written by the same person, but all of which are definitely positive.

If anyone is interested in starting a Caber Tossing Club, please contact me.

* Not all cricket matches last five days, and whites are not always worn. Those are just the test matches, apparently. That concludes everything I know about cricket.

Anyone know what’s going on here?

If you’re like me, you like your athletic contests to take place over the course of five days and be conducted in bulky sweaters that show every last grass stain.* You’ll be happy to learn, therefore, that the Brookline Cricket Club exists — 102 members strong — and it is taking new players!

This is not to be confused with the Longwood Cricket Club, which is a fancy-pants grass court tennis club in Chestnut Hill that also offers its members swimming, dining and lounging on the deck sipping Glenmorangie and discussing Chinese labor strikes and their impact on large cap stocks. What Longwood Cricket Club does not offer its members, regrettably, is cricket.

You can find Brookline Cricket Club on Meetup. There isn’t much info available to non-members, but anyone who’s interested can become a member. There are matches coming up on June 8, 14 and 22, and they apparently play in Brookline, Boston or Cambridge. “All skills and levels welcome.” There are six reviews of the group, all of which may or may not have been written by the same person, but all of which are definitely positive.

If anyone is interested in starting a Caber Tossing Club, please contact me.

* Not all cricket matches last five days, and whites are not always worn. Those are just the test matches, apparently. That concludes everything I know about cricket.